Thursday, March 08, 2007

Do Your Best

Plot holes. Those words give me cold grue. Since I think plotting is my weakness, it's the thing a reviewer can say that will really hit me. And I recently read a review of one of my books that said it.

But the reviewer gave me an example, and I considered it, then was able to shrug it off. I'd done my best to make sure that particular contingency was covered and wasn't a plot hole. Obviously I'd been to subtle for him/her to get it, or he/she didn't suspend disbelief in that case. In any event, it didn't bother me.

Because I'd done my best. I'd addressed the issue and to me it became less of a "writer failure" and more of a "subjective reader judgement."

Subjective judgement is something you can't fight. If readers don't like "talking" cats, then they won't like my books. There is nothing I can do to change that, so I shrug it off. Whew. One thing less to fret about, though he/she did say plot holes so I don't know what else was wrong....

3 Comments:

Ellen said...

I love the talking cats. It is one of the reasons why I picked up the first book and continue to pick up each book as soon as they come out. I have bought the Luna series on the strength of the Heart series books-even though I do not usually buy trade paperbacks.Ellen